Raisinpie

I was on-course yesterday so was not in the office. As a result I missed all the action. Here in my corner of the world, there was a hostage situation (read here http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/hostage+taking+ends+peacefully/2128080/story.html). My office building is directly north of the WCB building and according to my colleagues our building was evacuated around noon. My understanding of what happened….

• 8:30 am police cars were cutting off colleague from having a smooth uneventful drive to work.
• Once at work colleagues were looking out the south facing windows trying to figure out why there were police officers with big guns, and people were leaving the building…fast.
• A short time later, the building manager came flying in the office and told  everyone with a south facing office to close their curtains, turn the lights off, get away from the windows and shut the doors.
• The building was evacuated around noon and no one could get to their cars and had to find alternative ways home. According to one colleague she said it was like a ghost town when she left the building except for the police there was no one else around.

While this was all happening, I was in an all day workshop, on the southside of the city and didn’t have a clue what was happening downtown till 5 pm. I drove by on 109st and thought look at all the cop cars much be a bomb scare. Well it was a scare but not a bomb scare. I didn’t find out until I got home and switched on the tv to check the news and then called a few colleagues on the telephone. Everyone in office is a-okay.

My corner of the world is still my corner of the world but yesterday the whole world was watching and I didn’t even know what was going on as I was learning about ‘The Art of Difficult Conversations’.